Children and Biography: Reading and Writing Life Stories

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Professor Kate Douglas (Flinder's University, Australia) Kate Douglas (Flinder's University Australia)

Children and Biography

Reading and Writing Life Stories

Professor Kate Douglas (Flinder's University, Australia), Kate Douglas (Flinder's University Australia), John David Zuern (University of Hawai?i at Manoa USA) , Anna Poletti (Utretch University Netherlands)

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English

Bloomsbury Academic
21 March 2024

Memoirs; Children's literature studies: general

Series: New Directions in Life Narrative

The first study of life narratives produced for, about, and written by children, this book examines the recent popularity of children’s biographies and how they engage with the biggest issues of our time:

environmental change, health crises, education, and children’s personal and political development.

Beginning with a literary-historical overview, Children and Biography proceeds to examine 21st-century examples and trends such as illustrated texts including Women in Science, the Fantastically Great Women Who… books, Rebel Dogs, Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls, Kids Who Did, My Beautiful Birds and The Journey. The book also considers archives of children’s writings and drawings, in particular the testimonies of child asylum seekers, children’s biographical art, and ‘Lockdown diaries’ produced during the Covid-19 pandemic. By analyzing these works alongside empirical studies into how such material is received by child readers, and how texts generated by children are perceived both by them and their parents, this book provides new knowledge on how biographies for children are produced and read.

Comprehensive and original, Children and Biography, presents an ethical methodological framework for scholarly practice when reading, witnessing and interpreting children’s life narratives. The book offers a mandate for future researchers: to place children’s voices and writing at the centre of inquiries in ways that facilitate genuine agency for child authors.

By: Professor Kate Douglas (Flinder's University Australia)
Edited by: Kate Douglas (Flinder's University Australia), John David Zuern (University of Hawai?i at Manoa USA), Anna Poletti (Utretch University Netherlands)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: NIPPOD
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781350236400
ISBN 10: 1350236403
Series: New Directions in Life Narrative
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 21 March 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kate Douglas is Professor in English at Flinders University, Australia. She is the author of Contesting Childhood: Autobiography, Trauma and Memory (2010) and the co-author of Life Narratives and Youth Culture: Representation, Agency and Participation (2016, with Anna Poletti). Her edited collections include (with Ashley Barnwell) Research Methodologies for Auto/Biography Studies (2019). Kate is Head of the steering committee for the International Auto/Biography Association’s Asia-Pacific chapter.

Reviews for Children and Biography: Reading and Writing Life Stories

This is an essential book. In this wide-ranging study, Kate Douglas asks us to reconsider biography, by and for children, as acts of representation, inspiration, and education. The book moves effortlessly across theoretical disciplines, taking in an impressive variety of texts. The inclusion of children's voices and the respect given to their reading lives is a model. --Professor Claire Lynch, Brunel University London, UK